Simulation of Solar Cell and sinusoidal pulse width modulation Inverter Using MATLAB and Proteus

Abstract

Due to the increase in population and therefore pollution, the need for a new source of energy has increased. PV is one of the renewable energy that has been under the spotlight. PV cells incorporate non-linear characteristics as far as voltage and current generated by them. The voltage generated need to be manipulated before it can be converted to AC. In this paper the technique used is to get DC-wave from solar cell by using the equations of PV module and connect it to a H-bridge inverter to generate ac source by using PWM technique, following this, we used a low pass filter to produce a pure sine wave. A simulation was done using MATLAB, and the results were used in programming the Arduino to simulate the same work in Proteus and the results were compared.